Chapter 18 Fifth Festival Lunar Light

When Fu Sinian was writing letters to his family with exhaustion, Luo Jialun, the student leader of the "May 4th" Movement who was as famous as him and a good friend of Fu, was expressing his surging mood in a small room with tears in his eyes.In a short time, a vernacular poem came out and Cheng Cangbo, the editor-in-chief of "Central Daily", got it to the newspaper office and published it as quickly as possible.The poem says: Victory!Victory! Japan knelt down and surrendered! Zhu Jie's cannons sound like thunder; the streets are full of firecrackers, fireworks are flying, and there are waves of people all over the mountains and plains!

Laughing soaring, tears like crazy! look east! Our millions of lions, in cooperation with the heroic allies, sweep away the remnants of the enemy like a tiger facing a sheep. Step through that little hibiscus! The rivers and mountains are rebuilt, and the sun and the moon are shining again. The banner of victory supports Chairman Jiang! Let's go to pray to the Father of the Nation together, beside the Zijin Mountain! Eight years of bloody battle, thousands of loyal souls: Only then did the Kangzhuang of the founding of the country come into being. This really lives up to our national war of resistance.

Live up to our blood-stained battlefield! Luo Jialun did not reprimand the crowd who set off firecrackers like Chen Bulei did, but rather appreciated it, but the poems were written very naively, with a feeling of "fake big empty", and some sentences seemed to be incomprehensible.And this "little Fusang" that Roche seems to look down on has left deep pain to the Chinese soldiers and civilians since the Sino-Japanese War, while China has only the power to parry and has little power to fight back.But after reading the whole article, the author's sincere joy and pride are vivid on the paper, which is enough to represent the aspirations of millions of Chinese soldiers and civilians.It's just that Generalissimo Jiang was not in a hurry to go to the Zijin Mountain to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. He had more urgent things to do than to pay homage.However, Liang Sicheng, who was immersed in the excitement and excitement, wanted to return to Lizhuang as soon as possible, to share the joy of victory with his sick wife, family members and colleagues in Lizhuang, and experience the "Jianguo's Kangzhuang" .Early the next morning, with the help of Fairbank, Liang Sicheng, his assistants Luo Zhewen and Fei Weimei boarded a US military C-47 transport plane and arrived at Yibin Airport after a 45-minute flight.At this time, the Yibin Airport was knee-deep in grass, but the pilot still forced the plane to land safely with the joy of victory.Liang, Fei and the others transferred to a small steamboat and went down the river along the white water, and soon arrived at Lizhuang Wharf.When they landed, they were greeted with slogans all over the street and a festive atmosphere surrounded by heat waves—it seemed that the closed-off Li Zhuang had already heard the news of victory.

Li Zhuang was able to learn the news in a timely manner, and everyone felt that they should thank the German Professor Stube who taught at Tongji University.It was this medical expert who spoke a little Chinese, and at that critical historic moment on the night of August 10th, he heard the Chongqing Central Broadcasting Station's broadcast about Japan's surrender from his old radio.It is said that after hearing this, Stuber shook like an electric shock all over his body. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately grabbed the radio and ran out, knocking down the door of a Chinese professor's house for the first time regardless of politeness. ——Therefore, the news rushed out like a surging torrent storm, spreading and rippling in the whole town of Lizhuang.In the ancient town of Lizhuang shrouded in dusk, one door after another was knocked open, one pair after another opened their eyes wide, and the gathered crowd screamed and jumped wildly in the streets and alleys.

"Japan has surrendered!" "Victorious, China has won!" The shouts were like thunderclaps in the sky, blasting the dull sky and depressed hearts.There are ancient temples, farmhouses, and courtyards in Lizhuang Ancient Town. Men, women, and children rushed out, shaking towels, carrying sheets, basins, buckets, and cutting boards. , dragging fire sticks, beating, shouting, cheering, dancing wildly, dancing wildly, rushing and surging on the muddy streets and alleys and field paths.Students, professors, farmers, workers, small businessmen, monks from Beiyue Temple, and Taoist priests from Nanhua Palace, holding lanterns and torches, huddled together, hugged each other, cried and laughed, and fought and fought.The professor hugged the peddler, the monk kissed the nun, the old man and the girl held hands, there was a lot of voices inside and outside the town, the slogans shook the sky, the lights swayed, the shadows of people, the dogs barking, all the living things in Li Zhuang were mobilized Sensitive nerves resonated with joy for the moment of victory that had been waiting for eight years.

Li Ji, Zeng Zhaoyi, Guo Baojun, Wang Tianmu, Zhao Qingfang, Li Lincan and other researchers from the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum who lived in Lizhuang Town got the news and participated in the parade overnight.Early the next morning, Li Ji called the staff of the Preparatory Office of the Central Museum for a congratulatory meeting. In his speech, as a rare sober person in this context, he pointed out with great rationality and scientific foresight: "Japan's surrender was due to the two atomic bombs. The results of the throwing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but more importantly, announced the advent of a new era of atomic energy. The victory is what we are happy to hear, but when the new era comes, each of us should have a new understanding, There are new and more important responsibilities.”

Scholars from the Institute of History and Philology and Sociology of the Academia Sinica, who lived 4 kilometers away from the outskirts of Lizhuang Town on the top of the mountain, suddenly heard the sound of people shouting and barking dogs, thinking it was another The bandits came into the village to rob money and sex, and the local military police and the security team came together to arrest them, so they didn't pay much attention. They closed their doors or continued to read and climb the grid under the lights, or went to bed with the lights off.Before dawn the next day, a parade composed of young teachers and students from Tongji University had already arrived outside the dormitory.The awakened scholars and their family members believed that the bandits had entered Deshan and surrounded the house, so they hurriedly brought kitchen knives and fire sticks, as well as the small copper gong that Fu Sinian had asked Li Fanggui to buy for colleagues of the Institute of History and Language earlier (South Press: Fu Sinian told Shi Yu If you find the bandits coming, you will knock on the gong for help), walk out of the room in fear, and quietly lie on the crack of the door to observe the movement.

I saw colorful banners made of bed sheets, pillowcases, old clothes, and even waste newspapers floating all over the mountains and fields. Under the banners were groups of emotional male and female students.When they heard the news of the surrender of the Japanese devils from the cries of the other party, the scholars and the alarmed local people immediately threw away the kitchen knives and fire sticks in their hands, and opened the gate with only a small gong, one by one. Aww" screaming and rushing into the crowd, running and dancing wildly in the fields, tinkling and beating.Wei Shanchen, the manager of the consumer cooperative run by employees of the Institute of History and Philology, who often speaks cross talk with a standard Beijing accent, is also the "Boss Wei" who was robbed by bandits at the foot of the mountain and beaten up a few years ago for the cooperative. , Hearing the movement outside the door, he thought that when the bandits arrived, disaster was imminent, so he hurriedly grabbed a five-tooth nail rake that he entrusted to the blacksmith in Lizhuang Town to make, similar to that used by Zhu Bajie, and prepared to fight the bandits to the death.After finding out the truth, he threw away the rake "swish", swayed his fat body and arched out of the door, humming and chirping, jumped to the cooperative located at the head of the archway, and walked out of a box. He took out two bottles of wine, dragged several senior researchers including Dong Zuobin and Shi Zhangru who were standing at the head of the archway, and shouted "Victory, my treat!" On a hillside, facing the flowing water of the Yangtze River, pouring wine into each other's mouths.When the two bottles of wine bottomed out, each of them burst into tears and lay drunk in the mountains and wild grass. ——This is another reincarnation in the past eight years after the drunk farewell at Qingxi Pavilion in Changsha.It's just that today is not what it used to be, and the state of drunkenness is completely different.

When Liang Sicheng and the other three came to Lizhuang Shangba Moonfield Construction Society, Lin Huiyin was still lying on the bed, her pale and thin body was just like the description in her poem "Sitting Still": "A dead branch shadow, blue smoke color thin."Fei Weimei couldn't help sighing after seeing it.Liang Zaibing, the daughter who participated in the student parade in Lizhuang Town, ran home halfway, panting, and told her mother about the splendor of the outside world. feel.Seeing her husband and good friend Fei Weimei rushing from afar, Lin Huiyin could no longer hold back the excitement in her heart. She proposed to come to Lizhuang Town to join the parade in person at this great historical turning point, and poured out her heart. The block that had been held in my heart for eight years gave out its own cheers for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

A self-made sliding rod was quickly tied up. Lin Huiyin sat on the sliding rod, Luo Zhewen and other young people lifted it up, Liang Sicheng and Fei Weimei followed on both sides, just like a big girl getting married on the loess plateau in the north, the group said Laughing, huh-la-la, wobbling, it was quite comical to head towards the center of Lizhuang town.This is the first time Lin Huiyin has come to the streets of this ancient town in the past five years since his old illness relapsed. It was unexpected that he appeared in such a state of mind and in such a way.Slogans all over the street, crowds of people all over the street, laughter all over the street.No one recognized this generation of talented woman who was famous in Jinghua, let alone Lin Huiyin's extraordinary network background-at this time, these extraneous things were neither important nor needed.All the university teachers and students or local people who met him gave him sincere greetings and smiles.Lin Huiyin looked at groups of young students whose faces were covered with dust and sweat, who seemed to have known him before, and suddenly remembered the scene on the streets of Beiping eight years ago when the gunshots from the Marco Polo Bridge rang out.In that scorching summer, those students whose faces were covered with sweat and collected sacks to help the officers and soldiers of the 29th Army build fortifications did not know where they were now.If they were still alive, they might be in the procession in front of them, or they had already wandered in Outland, or they were dead.Thinking of this, hot tears slowly flowed down the thin, pale cheeks... On August 15, 1945, the official surrender note of the Japanese government was forwarded by the Swiss Embassy in China to the Nationalist Government, which said:

1. Regarding Japan's acceptance of the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration, His Majesty the Emperor has issued an imperial decree. 2. His Majesty the Emperor intends to authorize and guarantee the Japanese government and the Japanese headquarters to sign the necessary conditions for the implementation of the provisions of the Potsdam Declaration.His Majesty the Emperor is also prepared to cease active action, to surrender ordnance, and to issue such orders to the Allied High Command as may be necessary to carry out the above conditions, against all Japanese land, sea, and air forces, and all forces under their jurisdiction in various places. Chongqing's "Central Daily" received a telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at 7 o'clock on the same day. Half an hour later, an "extra" about the news was printed and distributed throughout the city.The firecrackers for celebration were lit again, and the flames and smoke were accompanied by shouts, which shook everyone's heart. Many people embraced each other and wept in the vent of passion. On the morning of the same day, Chiang Kai-shek, in the name of the chairman of the government of the Republic of China, published a broadcast statement on the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to the military and civilians of the whole country and people all over the world on the Chongqing Central Radio Station on medium and short waves.The speech was drafted by Chiang Kai-shek himself, and he pointed out: "Our truth of 'justice must prevail over power' has finally been proved, which also shows the success of the historical mission of our national revolution. Our China is in the dark and desperate. During the period, the belief of eight years of struggle has been realized today." At the same time, he pointed out: "My Chinese compatriots must know that 'don't forget the old evil' and 'be kind to others' are the most noble and noble virtues of our national tradition. We have always said that we only recognize Japan's militaristic warlords are enemies, not the Japanese people. Today, the enemy army has been defeated by our allies. Of course, we must strictly oblige him to faithfully implement all the terms of surrender, but we do not want to retaliate, let alone attack the enemy. Innocent people are insulted, and we can only show pity for them being fooled and driven by his Nazi warlords, so that they can extricate themselves from their mistakes and crimes. You must know that if you answer the enemy's previous atrocities with violence, and answer their past with slavery A wrong sense of superiority will be rewarded with grievances and grievances will never end, and it is by no means the goal of our teachers of benevolence and righteousness..." The broadcast lasted nearly 11 minutes, and Theodore H. White, a China correspondent for the American "Time" magazine, described Chiang's broadcast in this way: In August 1945, Chiang sat quietly in a stuffy broadcasting room in Chongqing, preparing to tell the Chinese people that the cause of war was over.He was as frozen and composed as usual.His head was shaved clean, without a trace of gray hair.His khaki military jacket was spotless, bare of medals, fastened at the throat with a diagonal belt buckle, and a fountain pen hung from the pocket.The broadcasting room was hot, and the 20 people inside were sweating profusely. Only the Chairman looked cool.He adjusted his horn-framed glasses, glanced at the purple flowers on the table in front of him, and slowly told the people that the war had been won with a high-pitched and clear voice into the loudspeaker.As he spoke, a loudspeaker outside broadcast the news.He could hear a slight cheer as the crowd on the street, recognizing his obvious car, gathered outside the stone building's gate.His speech lasted ten minutes.Suddenly his head drooped, and the hollows of his insomnia eye sockets were visible. In this moment of relaxation, his stable appearance was revealed. Tension and fatigue appeared on others at this moment of victory... August 15th, Japan time At 12:00 noon and 11:00 am in Chongqing, Emperor Hirohito of Japan broadcast the "armistice edict" to the whole world, officially announcing that 3.3 million dying Japanese soldiers put down their weapons and surrendered unconditionally. On September 2, the Japanese surrender signing ceremony was officially held on the USS Missouri moored in Tokyo Bay.The Associated Press said in a cable broadcast to the world on this day: "World War II, the most tragic collection of death and destruction in history, ended today with Japan's formal unconditional surrender."